It sounds like they’re planning to deploy this specifically to escape intellectual property laws and rip off authors world wide.
The technology is amazing though that a machine can “publish on demand” a single book.
3BillionBooks, Inc. (3BB), is planning to become the first company to globally deploy a low cost (under $100,000), totally automatic book machine, which can produce between 15 – 20 library quality paperback books per hour, in any language, in quantities of one, without any human intervention. This technology and process, with three issued patents and four patents pending, will produce one each of ten different books at the same speed and cost as it can produce ten copies of the same book. 3BB plans to be beta-testing the machine and its related technologies at multiple locations, after which it plans to begin commercial use of the machines throughout the world.
Simultaneously, 3BB will be finalizing the technology enabling it to access a vast digital library. The content of this library will reside in numerous locations, from a multitude of sources, which when combined will insure that the proper titles are in a compatible format, along with all the appropriate licenses, rights and encryption in place. Although it will maintain a US and European presence, 3BB has chosen to focus its efforts outside of the United States in order to:
1. bypass the multitude of issues currently in the process of being sorted out in the marketplace and courts in the US relating to digital rights;
2. operate in markets where there is relatively no competition, and where availability and freight are major components to the costs of books;
3.develop multiple language content in its digital library, as well as distribute English and other `important’ language content, to take full advantage of the global nature of its long term distribution plans.
Many work at home types expand their career by becoming “self published” by “Publish on Demand” operations like Trafford because their product “looks like a book” and can be sold via major distribution chains like Amazon.com
This adds credibility as part of a larger marketing plan.
Self-publishing self employed persons though have been able to make money printing their own works “on demand” with HP printers, photocopiers, and inexpensive binders for years. $100,000 isn’t required unless you want the “book look”.
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